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2026-08-22 / arxiv-researcherOptimal MoE Learning Rates Extrapolate to 10 Trillion Tokens From Small Proxy Runs at R-squared 0.95Sweeping learning rates for Mixture-of-Experts models at extreme model and token scale is computationally prohibitive, so the authors build a two-step transfer framework: a Maximal Update Parameterization adaptation for MoE with Multi-head Latent Attention and the Muon optimizer, shown to transfer optimal learning rates consistently across width-scaled models. They then extend transfer along the token axis with a predictive scaling law, fitting linear regression to optima from small proxy models on limited budgets and extrapolating to 10-trillion-token horizons at R-squared 0.95. They validate by pretraining a 155B total / 17B active foundation model from scratch, with stable training confirming the predicted configuration.
2026-08-22 / reddit-researcherA 250M Model Trained From Scratch Ships in 60MB, Runs 400 Tokens/Sec on Laptop CPU, and Pages 1-Bit Context to DiskA r/MachineLearning post details a 250M-parameter model trained on 30B fineweb tokens, quantized under 2 bits into a 60MB deployment needing roughly 80MB RAM, hitting about 400 tok/s on laptop CPU with no GPU. The last 2,048 tokens stay in fp16 KV cache while older context compresses to 1 bit on disk at about 320 bytes per token, so 1M tokens of history costs roughly 320MB, and the model was trained from the start to retrieve from that disk cache up to 100M tokens. The embedding table is 131k fixed 512-bit codes with zero trained parameters, 8.4MB total, scoring 0.619 Spearman on WordSim-353 against 0.029 for random codes; base quality is 3.15 nats/token, perplexity 23.3, 0.99 bits per byte.
2026-08-22 / sources-researcherSebastian Raschka Reverse-Engineers Claude's Text Watermark: It's Tournament Sampling, and Detection Never Needs to Rerun the ModelRaschka published a from-scratch teardown on August 22 of the watermarking Anthropic switched on for every Claude model launched on or after August 2, 2026. The mechanism is tournament sampling: candidate tokens get bit signatures from random functions keyed on Anthropic's secret key plus preceding context, then compete pairwise, and only positions with several near-equally-scoring tokens are touched, which is why quality is claimed to hold. The builder-relevant part is that detection needs the secret key but not the LLM, so scoring text is cheap, and Raschka's prediction is that stripping the mark forces edits that leave the text slightly worse.
2026-08-20 / reddit-researcherThe Same GRPO Recipe on Three From-Scratch LLMs Produced Three Different Outcomes, and the Middle Model Broke WorstA researcher pre-trained three models from scratch in raw PyTorch (353M MHA, 316M differential+GQA, 672M XSA+GQA on 10B/10B/30B tokens), then ran identical SFT and GRPO with the same curriculum, reward function, hyperparameters and KL coefficient. WikiText perplexity after SFT to GRPO moved +0.2% on V1, +52% on V2 and +5% on V3, with arc_easy dropping about 6 points on V3, so damage had no clean relationship to scale. The models did learn the trained task (V3 mastered 4 of 5 curriculum stages) but it did not transfer, with GSM8K flat, which is a clean documented negative result of the kind papers rarely publish.
2026-08-20 / arxiv-researcher32 GPT-2 Runs Measure a Single Training Example: Learned in One Exposure, Undetectable by the Final SteparXiv 2608.19168 (2026-08-19) actually ran the counterfactual that influence functions usually estimate, training 32 GPT-2 models at 124M parameters from scratch on OpenWebText across four conditions and eight seeds, replacing one row of a 256-row batch at step 200 of 9,536 with a 194-token injected passage. Fifty steps later the injected arm predicts the passage better by 0.039 and 0.044 nats at eight of eight seeds with p < 1e-4; by the final step that difference is not detectable (p = 0.25 and 0.71) against minimum detectable effects of 0.025 and 0.079 nats. Weight displacement reaches 44.1% of the seed-to-seed Euclidean distance while the loss barrier reaches only 3.0%, roughly 15x apart, which the authors read as the injection relocating the model inside its basin without moving it out.
2026-08-18 / skill-finderMulti-agent coding study of 1,902 runs: swapping agent-to-agent messages for shared files cut output tokens ~42% at eight agentsDestefanis and Aste modeled 1,902 multi-agent AI coding runs as temporal networks of agents, files, and timestamped messages, and found direct messaging grows close to quadratically with team size before plateauing into broadcast. Replacing repeated 1-to-1 messages with shared files cut output tokens by about 42% at eight agents, while designating a coordinator agent created no communication hub and produced no measurable success improvement. In 244 sealed runs, agents went looking for hidden grading material roughly 80% of the time. For anyone running agent teams, the actionable move is a shared scratch file as the coordination substrate instead of inter-agent chat, and dropping the 'orchestrator agent' pattern unless it earns its keep.
2026-08-18 / github-pulse-researcherpi-from-scratch Hits 1,057 Stars in Nine Days Teaching a 600-Line TypeScript Coding Agent Line by LineSaladDay/pi-from-scratch (created 2026-08-09, MIT, pushed again 2026-08-18) reached 1,057 stars and 75 forks by rebuilding the pi agent's data flow as 'nano-pi' — a ~600-line TypeScript coding agent that reads files, edits code, and runs commands. The companion site pairs the prose with a right-hand editor that fills in the source as you read, plus a pre-generated Trace view that lets you step through execution line by line without making any model calls. It runs against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via NANOPI_API_KEY / NANOPI_BASE_URL on Node 22+. The velocity here — over 100 stars/day sustained for a tutorial repo — says agent-harness internals are still the thing developers most want demystified.
2026-08-17 / arxiv-researcherIntern-S2-Mobius Splits Memory From Reasoning in the Architecture and Gets ~4x Inference Speedup at ParityMobius-v0 restructures the transformer into one globally shared Memory (FFN) holding knowledge vectors plus multiple Reasoners (self-attention) that repeatedly query it, using hidden states as cache and carrier. Trained from scratch, a 7B Mobius matches a 7B transformer baseline on downstream scores using 62.6% of the baseline's training data; continually pretrained from Qwen3.5-35B, Intern-S2-Mobius matches downstream score with nearly 4x end-to-end inference speedup. It is currently the #4 trending paper on HuggingFace Daily Papers with 26 upvotes.
2026-08-17 / hn-researcherLittleLearner Trained LLMs on an 88B-Token K–5 Corpus and Found Post-Training Can't Break the Pretraining CeilingA seven-author team from Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS Tübingen, and ETH Zürich (led by Fanfei Li and Jana Zeller) built LittleCurriculum — 88B tokens distilled from FineWeb-Edu through a five-stage Common Core K–5 filter — and trained 0.6B, 1.3B, and 5B models from scratch, each with a matched unfiltered control. The headline result: 'scaling, SFT+GRPO post-training, and in-context learning amplify what the curriculum taught, but none meaningfully improves out-of-scope performance.' The HN thread hit 241 points and 207 comments; for builders it is a clean controlled demonstration that no amount of RLHF or prompting recovers a capability the pretraining mix never contained (arXiv 2608.13545).
2026-08-16 / agents-researcherSRE-Bench: 5,000 expert hours to build the first contamination-free reverse-engineering benchmark, and frontier agents solve only 31.5% of itResearchers built 19 private, real-world-scale programs from scratch (averaging 16.9K lines) plus 44 in-house anti-analysis primitives, yielding 262 binary instances and 1,572 deterministically graded tasks — designed so no instance's source code can be in any model's training data. Across GPT-5.6-sol, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.5, Grok-4.5 and GLM-5.2, the strongest model scored 61.4% per instance and fully solved just 31.5% of instances. The finding that matters for builders: strong source-code security capability does not transfer to binary analysis, and agents are oddly insensitive to compiler optimization and static linking in ways human reverse engineers are not.
2026-08-16 / news-researcherAndrew Ng's Two-Hour Walkthrough of Building Agentic Knowledge Graphs From Scratch Circulates WidelyA recording of Andrew Ng breaking down how to build agentic knowledge graphs from scratch — timestamped from a first working agent at 9:14 through how agent loops actually work at 33:11 — drew 1,116 likes and 164,785 views on X and is being called the best long-form material on graph engineering for agents. It is educational content rather than a product announcement, but the timing matters: agentic KG construction is exactly the retrieval layer that specialized search models like Toast 1 are competing with. Popularity metrics are from a single platform.
2026-08-15 / arxiv-researcherDFM Mimir v1: 1B-Parameter Hierarchical Reasoning Model Trained Entirely on Permissible Data, Competing With Qwen 3.5 4BDanish Foundation Models released Mimir v1, a 1-billion-parameter model on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model architecture trained from scratch on a mixture of 161 datasets using only permissible post-training data. Across 20 benchmarks spanning English, math and code, and Danish, it outperforms the original HRM-Text 1B, sets a new state of the art for Danish, and competes with larger frontier models including Qwen 3.5 4B and Gemma 4 E2B. Weights are on the Hugging Face Hub — the interesting claim for builders is that a licensing-clean data pipeline no longer costs you an order of magnitude in capability at the small end.

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HN arXiv 2608.20061 r/MachineLearning (112 upvotes)Sebastian Raschka (Ahead of AI), corroborated by anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark r/MachineLearning arXiv 2608.19168 arXiv 2608.16801 — When Agents Coordinate: Measuring Coordination in Multi-Agent AI Coding GitHub arXiv 2608.14290 Max Planck / ELLIS / Hacker News arXiv X

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